Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer, Boulder, CO 

About Ascend 

Ascend Analytics’ climate technology software and services provide critical insights to power the energy transition. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend’s solutions serve as the core analytic infrastructure for electric utilities, independent power producers, electric retailers, and financiers of energy infrastructure. To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com.   

Your Impact at Ascend Analytics 

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer to join our team to work on the evolution of BatterySIMM and SmartBidder products here at Ascend. As Senior Prodcut Designer, you will be responsible for building a functional understanding of energy markets and renewable energy technology, researching and developing use cases and user personas, and delivering iterative visual designs for new features that empower our users to further the clean energy transition.  

Job Responsibilities

• Deeply understand our use case and role in energy markets, developing documentation on user personas and jobs to be done that contextualizes this knowledge for the broader team. 
• Collaborate with Product to expand upon early feature definition by translating initial ideas into:
  • Clarifying questions that better define requirements or challenge initial assumptions
  • Multiple design ideas and directions to begin from
  • Final design iterations that balance future goals with current user needs
  • Processes to gather and incorporate feedback from customers and internal stakeholders
• Develop and maintain a common design language and set of core UI components that underpin a consistent experience for users across battery products at Ascend.
• Attend customer calls, ask probing questions, and otherwise gather feedback from external and internal users alike to shape designs and ensure they deliver user value.
• Provide clear and consistent guidance to the development team, including interactive prototypes, design notes, and other collateral as needed.
• Proactively suggest and incorporate visual changes such as cleaner layouts, improved page density, or style updates that simplify and refine the existing experience over time.
• Research other energy market tools, especially those that our customers use in tandem with our platform, to ensure an intuitive experience for industry professionals. 

Required Qualifications

• A BS or higher in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a similar position 
• Self-motivated and effective in an unstructured environment
• Accepts feedback well and has a bias towards moving forward, targeting great over perfect
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to balance output fidelity with the maturity of an idea or project  
• Able to analyze the product and market needs at a conceptual level ensuring that new updates improve the product experience without overcomplicating it
• Creative and willing to explore ideas from multiple angles, often stepping back to reevaluate priors and guard against anchoring bias 

Preferred Qualifications

• Motivated by our mission to accelerate the adoption of clean energy across the power sector 
• Mastery of Figma including its auto-layout, component, mode, and library features to ensure consistency and efficiency when creating new designs
• History designing SaaS products for a technical user base
• Graphic design skills to create icons, logos, and scalable vector graphics from scratch
• Experience as the lead designer of a product in a previous role 

Compensation: $100,000 – $140,000 

Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average.  

We offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.   

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.    

Ascend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]